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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:48:52 +0200
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Subject: Re: can't share fifo between 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwins
From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Warren Young  wrote:

> In principle, one could build a 32-bit cygwin1.dll that would depend on the
> existence of a 64-bit cygwin1.dll, doing nothing other than acting as a
> thunking layer.  Every 32-bit Cygwin app that makes a call on that DLL would
> actually be talking to the 64-bit DLL, which would do all the work.

Of course, this would require the existence of two 32-bit
cygwin1.dlls, one for 32bit Cygwin on 32bit systems, and one for 32bit
Cygwin on 64bit systems (with 64bit Cygwin installed).

Implementation is left as an exercise :)

Csaba
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